Preparation of edible fats



. Patented Dec. 11, 1928.

WHARTON B. MOLAUGHLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.; CELIA BROWN MCLAUGHLIE AD- -M-INISTRATIX F SAID WHARTON B. MCLAUGHLIN, DECEASED.

PREPARATION OF IEIIDIIBIIIIE- FATS.

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This invention relates to the preparation of fatty substances, which are solids at ordinary temperatures, for more convenient-and economical use and it is especially applicable to chocolate, sweet and unsweetened. In the case of chocolate, considerable diflic'ulty is ex-.

' perienced in getting the substances in a condition to be used in the-manufacture of syrups, and ice cream. These difliculties are so great that only in very exceptional cases is chocolate used forv their manufacture, the vast bulk of these commodities being r nade from cocoa butter which contains twenty-five to twenty-six per cent butter fat. For example, ice cream as made to-day is almost entirely a cold process and the finely powdered cocoa is mixed with the cream and frozen. In the case where syrups are made, as a rule, they are compelled to dilute the chocolate with glycerine in order to lower its melting point andsecure miscibility with the sugar solution. I havediscovered that if melted chocolate be sprayed into a current of moving gas such'as air, the temperature of which is below the solidifying point of chocolate, that this sprayed chocolate congeals while suspended in the current of gas and the resultant product can be collected in the formof a fine powder. And, further, that this powder is quickly and easily available for the various industrial purposes for which cocoa is now used, and a Application filed April 17, 1922. Serial in). 554,182.

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richer, more palatable product obtained. For example, this powder can be stirred into warm syrup and a chocolate syrup is easily a and readily produced. It can be stirred into an ice cream mixture and a chocolate ice cream base quickly and readily prepared.

By my process a finely powdered chocolate with a cocoa butter content of over 30% can be made. By processes as heretofore practiced it has been impossible to produce chocolate in powdered form with a cocoa butter content of this magnitude.

It is evident that this invention is applicable to any mixture of chocolate with other substances, I, however, do not limit myself in its use to chocolate but itmay be applied to other fats which are solids at ordinary air temperatures.

Having now described my invention, that which I claim as new and on which I desire tosecure Letters Patent is:

1. The method of producing chocolate in powder form which consists in spraying melted chocolate into a current of cold air.-

2. llhe method of preparing a chocolate powder which consists in spraying the melted chocolate into a current of gas at a'temperature lower than the solidifying point of the chocolate;

- WHAn'roN B. McLAUGHLIN.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION;

Granted December 11, i928, to I Patent No. 1,694,391.

WHARTON B. McLAUGHLIN.

rintedspecification of vthe appears in the p After line 52, insert the It is hereby certified that error ection as ioiiows:

above nnmbered patent requiring corr iollowing as claim 1:

containing more than "i. A chocolate in the term oi a time powder thirty-per cent cocoa butter."

for claim or claims "Ii and 2" read "2 and 3"; and that the id he read with these corrections therein that the same the Patent ()iiice. niher, At. D. 192).

Lines 53 and 56, said Letters Patent shou may conform to the record of the case in Signed and sealed this 17th day ct Dace v M. J Moore,- (Seal) Acting Commissioner oi iPa tents 

